Associate Professor

Thomas Owren

Field of work

Social education (vernepleie), social education theory, disability and equality (CRPD) 

Participation and accommodating participation (building down environmental barriers) for persons with intellectual disability

Including persons with intellectual disability as employees in ordinary businesses, organizational learning related to work disability inclusion

Collective peer teaching (students teaching students) in higher education

Peer assessment and feedback (students guiding students) in work with home exams in higher education

Professional supervision, interdisciplinary reflection and reflexivity

Research areas 

  • Informal coercion
  • Workplace disability inclusion
  • Collective peer teaching
  • Peer assessment and feedback
  • Integrating AI in students' work with home exams

 

Courses taught
  • MASM530, Milieu Therapeutic Work- Methodological Approaches, Fall 2025
  • VPD220, The social educator’s social responsibility to work for inclusion and participation , Fall 2025
  • VPL210, Healthcare and Health Promotion, Fall 2025
  • VPL220, The Social Educator’s Social Responsibility to Work for Inclusion and Participation , Spring 2026
  • VPL300, Social Education between the Individual Service User and System Levels, Fall 2025, subject responsible
  • VPL310, Welfare, Interaction and Project Work, Spring 2026
  • VPL390, Bachelor's Thesis , Spring 2026

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